FSX and Me

[Seaking]

I think I've finally cracked it !! after my last crash decided to wipe both hdd's and install all from new.

Have FSX on it's own hdd now and have been tweaking away for a couple of months, testing here and testing there for the best on my rig.

With the xtreme quad 3ghz I have I had it o'clocked to 3.24 but with the puter in idle my core temps were in the 40-50C range and with FSX loaded up I was up into the 60'sC.

So I thought it was time for another case and yet another CPU cooling fan, finally I'm where I want to be with temps.


With a lot of help from the techs at my local store I decided on this case
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.ph ... cid=CS.664

and this Mother of a CPU cooler
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.ph ... cid=FN.349

What a difference !! after the guys swapped over all my hw into the new case along with the new CPU cooler I booted up and after 24 hours solid running, idle core temps @ 3.24 oc were in the mid 30's and with FSX on load mid 40's.

So today thought I would increase my oc a little more, now have the rig running a shade under 3.4, even with FSX loaded like at Heathrow my temps are not above 44C so I'm well happy now.

So now I think it's time to get a few pics posted which I'll do over the next couple of days.

Sorry for the length of the post just wanted to share is all now being a happy camper.

[BAe146]

How are you doing, frame rate wise?

I'm currently building a new rig, too.

Coolermaster Cosmos 1000 case (Huge!) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811119138
Intel i7 920 Quad Core
Asus P6T Deluxe motherboard
BFG 9800GTX+ video card (for now)
Coolmax 950W PSU
(x2) Western Digital 320Gb SATA HDs
Corsair Dominator DDR3 PC1600 RAM (6Gb)

I have to wait for the RAM to arrive, and then it'll be complete!

[Seaking]

I have my FPS set at 30 and it's very smooth, plus a few tweaks I'm still playing with in the FSX.cfg

[Techy111]

Can you share some of your Tweaks Seaking...?



Tony

[Seaking]

These are the tweaks I play around with in the FSX.cfg

added under display
MipBias=6

Some others I play around with under display
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=80
FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.33

[TERRAIN]
LOD_RADIUS=4.500000

added under the same heading as above
TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_TREES_PER_CELL=1000
TERRAIN_MAX_AUTOGEN_BUILDINGS_PER_CELL=800
BUFFERPOOLS]
Poolsize=8000000

There are quite a few websites for various settings for fsx, I like to read, explore and test away. It of course depends on the rig your running
and what you like to see........lots of AI......eyecandy etc

Me I like a nice crisp sim with good graphics almost to the horizon with that slight haze. When I get some time I will post up some pics
of what I have it looking like.

Hope that helps